Re: [gentoo-user] how best to encrypt a file

[Philip Webb]

180703 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 05:47:22AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
>> I have a couple of small files which need to be encrypted :
>> one is simple text ( .txt ), the other a spreadsheet ( .ods ).
>> I haven't used encryption like this before : what do others use ?
> I have used `gpg' to do this before:
>     # Encrypt with a passphrase
>     gpg -c <file>
>     # Decrypt
>     gpg -d <file>.gpg
> I do have some files I keep encrypted locally
> that I use `gpg' to encrypt/decrypt, but with my personal key pair.
> For that, I use a vim plugin [1] that transparently decrypts to `/tmp',
> lets me edit and then saves back to the original file.
> This prevents the decrypted contents from ever being on my hard drive,
> as I have `/tmp' mounted as tmpfs.

Thanks, that's very helpful except that you forgot to append [1] (smile).

I don't need to encrypt the files locally,
but do need to when I create copies to up-load as off-site back-ups.

Does anyone else have a useful suggestion ?

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